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By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:19:49 +0000

Cake is a great framework. Complaints regarding performance can be trumped by utilizing caching. Cake is probably one of the more well structured PHP frameworks available.

The doc’s may be lacking, but if you stick with it, it’s well worth it- much more robust than CI.

I was a ZF developer for about 6-8 months, but switched to Cake and have been using it for just under a year. I had some frustrations initially as well, but after working through them, I haven’t regretted the switch.

By: Alex Jillard

Alex Jillard — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:05:36 +0000

I started with CakePHP and although I was able to get my application running, it was not at all fun. Finding any decent source of info was near impossible without spending hours trying to dig up a blog or google code thread that commented on it.

My next project I moved over to Code Igniter, and so far have found it to be much better. There are a few annoying bugs that I continually hit with checkboxes, but aside from that, its a rather painless experience. 90% of the stuff I need is in the documents, and the rest comes up with a simple search in the forums.

By: Nick Miller

Nick Miller — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:43:56 +0000

I second the recommendation for Zend Framework. It’s an MVC framework with great documentation. http://framework.zend.com

By: Stephen Orr

Stephen Orr — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:14:16 +0000

With regards to having a default page for a plugin. It is possible, there’s no need to mess around with routing, because I use this technique to create a “Dashboard” page for my admin backends.

Assuming you have a fairly standard plugin – in your instance:

/plugins/seo/seo_app_controller.php
/plugins/seo/seo_app_model.php
/plugins/seo/controllers/seo_controller.php — This is the key file here
/plugins/seo/views/seo/index.ctp — This is the second important file

In seo_controller.php, right at the top underneath where you set var $name = ‘Seo’;, add a line: var $uses = array();

This will solve your problem, as Cake will no longer look for a default model for this page. Works just as well outside of plugins should you feel the need to have a controller without a model. And this technique is well-documented.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:36:07 +0000

If you like PHP’s manual, you’ll love Zend Framework’s documentation.

By: Jan Michael Tan

Jan Michael Tan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:42:30 +0000

Hi! I have used CodeIgniter, Symfony and Zend Framework on several projects before, imho Zend Framework tops them all with regards to performance and flexibility. Granted that there will be a learning curve, but give it a shot. Am in the middle of a project right now with Zend.

By: webmaster

webmaster — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:01:37 +0000

@Christian

Thanks. At least you’ve confirmed for me that router is the way to do it for the link issue. It’s always good to have some affirmation that I’m on a right track.

Not sure what you mean on the plugin model issue tho.

I don’t think browsing the source code is really an option to make up for poor docs. But I get where you’re coming from.

I guess we can all do our part to contribute to the documentation effort. I have to also say that trac.cakephp.com was also a wealth of information. You just have to go digging for it.

By: Christian Winther

Christian Winther — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:01:23 +0000

ok, your blog is broken when i try to type ‘< ? p h p

it just discards it

By: Christian Winther

Christian Winther — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:00:54 +0000

array(‘className’ => ‘Page’), ‘Setting’ => array(‘className’ => ‘Seo.Setting’));
}

will load app/models/page.php as Page
will load app/plugins/seo/setting.php as Setting

No App::import required